Steve Jobs, the legend, is no more. Steve succumbed to his long-standing battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer of seven years, and passed away today. He is said to have died peacefully amidst his family. During his illustrious career, he has reshaped & revolutionized many industries, and has inspired many with his visionary skills and business acumen.

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comScore’s MobiLens quarterly data is out and Android nabs the No.1 slot in the U.S with a market share of 34.7% for March 2011. Android showed a 6-percentage point growth q-o-q, eating away shares from RIM, Microsoft and Palm. Apple inched closer to the 2nd spot, currently held by RIM (27.1%) with a q-o-q growth of 0.5 points, clocking a share of 25.5%.

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IHS iSuppli, released a report today that pegs the combined revenues of the four major app stores (run by Apple, Google, RIM & Nokia) to USD 3.8 Billion for 2011. Collective revenues of these app stores in 2010 stood at $2.8B, which is a 77.7% increase y-o-y. Apple is projected to claim a ‘ gargantuan 76% of the total app market revenue”, according to iSuppli.

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Fring currently earns the braggings rights to be the First ever Mobile VOIP app to launch free group video calling. Upto 4 users could sync on a video call, across the following front facing camera-enabled devices: iPhone/iPod, Android or Nokia. These users need to have the Fring app on their devices and can connect over Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G.

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International Data Corp (IDC) forecasts that the global smartphone market would surge by nearly 50% in 2011. Burgeoning demand from consumers and enterprises alike who trade their feature phone for smartphones would cause the smartphone market to acelarate 4x faster than overall mobile phone market, according to IDC.

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It has taken just 4 months for Android to up its activations by 100K/day to tally 300K activations/day as of today. This statement was confirmed by Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin via Twitter. The Ascendancy of Android OS has been fast paced; just a year ago Android had a share of 3.5% of the global smartphone market. Today, Android powers 1 out of 4 smartphones globally, according to a recent report from Gartner.

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Sixteen months post its launch, and the drama that ensued after Apple not approving the app, Google Voice finally lands on the iPhone today. Apple had made a case stating that the app duplicated the functionality of its native app and had not rejected the app, but was put on hold. With FCC intervening and now with Apple relaxing certain rules on its app store, the official Google Voice App was approved and can be downloaded for free from iTunes.

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According to Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair, Apple plans to produce 45-48M iPads and also forecasted to sell 100M iPhones in 2011. The projections also states that Apple could have 10% of the global handset market share next year. Apple has sold nearly 40M iPhones in fiscal 2010, a 93% increase year over year.

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Two reports were released for Q3, 2010 that pegs Android as the top dog, both in terms of shipments and the most popular OS in the U.S. NPD data estimates Android OS to have garnered 44% of the Smartphone OS market-share, where Android has eaten heavily into RIM’s share. Canalys, a U.K based research firm’s data suggests that Android shipment for Q3 is nearly twice as that of Apple’s, with the former gathering a 44% share of the total 20.9 million smartphones shipped across the United States.

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Mobile Ad Network, Millennial Media, published their Mobile Mix series report for September, 2010 and finds that for the first time on their network, Android advertisement revenue outpaced that of Apple’s. iOS is still the top OS powering all Apple devices and accounted for 46% of total ad impressions on the ad network, while Android and Blackberry trail at 29% and 19% respectively.

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